{"id":19728,"date":"2014-08-26T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-pay-no-respect-hope-for-the\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:08:47","slug":"album-review-pay-no-respect-hope-for-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-pay-no-respect-hope-for-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Pay No Respect &#8211; Hope for the Hopeless EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_inline_nau0zsmyCQ1qheirv.png\" width=\"150px\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Don\u2019t you just love familiarity? It\u2019s always comforting when you listen to something so safe and predictable\u2026Did I just say predictable? Of course I did! Don\u2019t get me wrong, when a band does follow familiar genre tropes, it only pays off when there\u2019s a spark, making you think, \u201cI must buy everything by this band and I must see them at every show!\u201d If such a spark doesn\u2019t exist, the material falls flat on its arse. At this point, you may be thinking that I\u2019ve written a negative review on the new EP by Kent hardcore mob <strong>Pay No Respect<\/strong>. However, I\u2019ll keep my personal preferences at bay, and lay out its few good qualities as well as its bad points.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the positives, <em>\u2018Hope for the Hopeless\u2019<\/em> has been solidly produced by Feed the Rhino bassist Oz Craggs. The meatiness of the sharp riffs, guttural vocals and bludgeoning drums has been well captured on tape (in a manner of speaking). There are gang vocals galore, plus songs like <em>\u2018Face Defiance\u2019<\/em> sound like a steel toe capped boot repeatedly stomping on someone\u2019s head into a pulpy, bloody mess. Unfortunately, this is where the catch to the record comes in. Whilst such imagery should be irresistibly memorable, it becomes clear that once the needle has been lifted, you find this record to be very forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it\u2019s difficult to pick apart one track from the other. For instance, I can\u2019t tell the difference between the title track and <em>\u2018One Chance\u2019 <\/em>as the use of breakdowns, gang vocals and structure are so similar. Maybe it\u2019s just me? Perhaps I feel too old to get into this style anymore. Sure, there\u2019s a drive to it, yet I can\u2019t help but feel so utterly bored. I\u2019d find smashing my head with a mallet more entertaining than this. Regardless of my tastes, would I recommend it to somebody who digs beatdown hardcore more than I? Everyone\u2019s tastes are different, so I\u2019d let the fans this band target to judge it for themselves. All in all I guess I have written a negative review. There are better, more interesting hardcore bands out there. I my opinion, <strong>Pay No Respect<\/strong> aren\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>2\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Hope for the Hopeless\u2019<\/em> EP by <strong>Pay No Respect<\/strong> is out now on <strong>In At the Deep End Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay No Respect<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paynorespect.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paynorespect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paynorespect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Aaron Lohan (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooran_loohan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ooran_loohan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t you just love familiarity? It\u2019s always comforting when you listen to something so safe and predictable\u2026Did I just say predictable? Of course I did! Don\u2019t get me wrong, when a band does follow familiar genre tropes, it only pays off when there\u2019s a spark, making you think, \u201cI must buy everything by this band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,9069,4448,9068],"class_list":["post-19728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-hope-for-the-hopeless","tag-in-at-the-deep-end-records","tag-pay-no-respect"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Pay No Respect - Hope for the Hopeless EP - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Don\u2019t you just love familiarity? 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